Homeless Youth Initiative
If you are 24 or younger and in an unstable housing situation, homeless, or at risk of homelessness, HPRP offers legal assistance in the following areas:
- Housing application denial
- Eviction from public housing, Section 8, emergency shelter, transitional housing program, or permanent supportive housing
- Public benefits denial or termination (food stamps, Temporary Cash Assistance, Medical Assistance, or Temporary Disability Assistance Program)
- Expungement (removal of criminal charges from the public record)
HPRP also has volunteer attorneys who may be able to provide legal assistance in the following areas:
- Family law (child custody, peace and protective orders, etc.)
- Consumer law (credit and debt issues, identity theft, etc.)
- Landlord-tenant issues
- Name change
- Connection or reconnection to foster care
- Social Security disability or survivor’s benefits
- Other civil legal issues – Please contact us to ask whether we can help you!
HPRP offers intake at the following locations:
Baltimore City
201 North Charles Street
Suite 1104
Baltimore, MD 21201
410-685-6589
Please call to schedule an appointment or ask about our services.
Youth Empowered Society (YES) Drop-In Center
2315 North Charles Street, first floor
Baltimore, MD 21218
Legal clinic is held on the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
This intake site serves individuals who have completed the YES Drop-In Center intake process and are current YES participants. Please contact YES at 410-235-7744 to schedule an intake appointment.
Eastside Youth Opportunity (YO) Center
1212 N. Wolfe Street
Baltimore, MD 21213
Legal clinic is held on the first Wednesday of the month from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. This intake site serves individuals who are enrolled in the YO program. YO enrollment and orientation is held every Monday at 10 a.m. Please call 410-732-2661 for more information.
Center for Urban Families
2201 North Monroe Street
Baltimore, MD 21217
TBD
Contact Kate Wolfson, Program Manager for STRIVE Future Leaders, at 410-367-5691 for more information.
This intake site only serves individuals who are participants in the STRIVE Future Leaders program with the Center for Urban Families.